Python style, Python Programming

Python Style

Software engineering courses often provide very rigid guidelines on the style of programming, generally the appropriate value of indentation, or what to use, or whether to capitalize underscores in variable characters. Those things may be useful for uniformity and readability of program, especially when a lot of engineers are working on a software. But they are mostly arbitrary: a style is chosen for consistency and according to some person's aesthetic preferences.

There are other method of style that look, to us, to be more fundamental, because they directly affect the readability or ef?ciency of the code.

Avoid recalculation of the similar value.

You should compute it once and assign it to a variable instead; otherwise, if you have a bug in the calculation (or you want to change the program), you will have to modify it multiple ways. It is also not efficient.

Avoid repetition of a structure of computation.

You should use a method instead, again to avoid having to change or debug the same basic code multiple times.

Avoid numeric indexing.

You should need destructuring if possible, since it is much easier to read the code and therefore easier to get right and to modify later.

Avoid excessive numeric constants.

You should name the constants, since it is much easier to read the code and therefore easier to get right and to modify later.

Here are some examples of simple procedures that exhibit several ?aws. We'll talk about what creates them problematic.